Jesus

Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary

From top Jesus expert Marcus Borg, a completely updated and revised version of his vision of Jesus—as charismatic healer, sage, and prophet, a man living in the power of the spirit and dedicated to radical social change.
Fully revised and updated, this is Borg's major book on the historial Jesus. He shows how the Gospel portraits of Jesus, historically seen, make sense. Borg takes into account all the recent developments in historical Jesus scholarship, as well as new theories on who Jesus was and how the Gospels reflect that.
The original version of this book was published well before popular fascination with the historical Jesus. Now this new version takes advantage of all the research that has gone on since the 80s. The revisions establish it as Borg's big but popular book on Jesus.
"This may be the last comprehensive book about Jesus that I write. I
do not imagine that it is my last book on topics related to Jesus, the
Bible, and Christianity. But it may be my last attempt to treat the
“whole” of the story of Jesus as a figure of history who became Chris-
tianity’s Lord. I say this not because of intimations of imminent mortality. But I am in the first half of my sixties, and I do not imagine writing another book like this for at least twenty years. By then, I may not be here, or I may be more interested in simply living life and resting in God. This book has a history. Twenty years ago, I wrote Jesus: A New Vision, my first somewhat comprehensive treatment of Jesus for a general audience. This book began three or four years ago as a “re- vised edition” of that book. It was to be a modest revision: an updating of bibliography and footnotes, an integration of important historical Jesus research from the last twenty years, and a modifica- tion of some content. A year or so later, it became a more thorough revision, so much so that I learned that it constituted a “new edition.” The difference, I have been told, is that a revised edition has less than 25 percent new content, and a new edition more than that. Now, two years later, it has become a replacement book which is to say, a new book. Only a few paragraphs here and there are more or less the same as what I wrote twenty years ago."